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Somepeople say that goemon(五右衛門), iemon(伊右衛門) are pronounced like that since it's hard to pronounce 2 or 3 continuous vowel sounds, as it supposed to read as "gouemon" (ごうゑもん) / "iuemon"(いうゑもん) per syllable.